Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons

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Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons (1566 – 1612), prince of France, was the son of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé and his second wife Françoise de Longueville-Rothelin. He was the first cousin of King Henri IV of France.

Born in Nogent-le-Rotrou, Soissons joined the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion despite the rest of his family being Protestant. He was later won over by Henri, who himself later converted to Catholicism.

Henri made him governor of the province of Brittany in 1589; of Dauphiné in 1602; and of Normandy in 1610. After Henri's death later that year, Soissons opposed the policies of his widow, the regent Marie de Médicis.

Soissons died in Blandy, Seine-et-Marne département, in 1612.

[edit] Children

• Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons

Preceded by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts

Lieutenant General of New France 1611-1612

Succeeded by Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé